George Takei Quotes

I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.

You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

I vote and I do jury duty.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

I hope no one in any part of this country will sit out any election. It’s about as unpatriotic think that anyone can do.

Voting is still the most exciting thing we do as Americans together.

The very right to vote imposes on me the duty to instruct myself in public affairs however little influence my voice may have in them.

America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote.

Two great duties which every citizen of proper age owes the republic: a wise and virtuous exercise of the right of suffrage; and a prompt and brave defense of the country in the hours of danger.

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

We didn't move here so I could save American democracy. But I've embraced it with the zeal of a convert.

We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.